AFP: Running on Empty
By JR Hoeft | Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 | PolicyAmericans for Prosperity (AFP) has an awesome campaign going on called “Running on Empty.”
The creative folks at AFP have decided to send the Obama administration a bill – one for each average fill-up you partake in at the gas pump.
When you visit the site for the first time, you enter the number of dollars you average paying at the pump and the number of times you fill-up per month. The site then automatically calculates the bill and adds it to the cumulative total for the cause. As of today, it’s just about $750k.
From the site, AFP says:
Since President Obama took office, gas prices have nearly doubled. The administration refuses to develop American energy sources…American energy sources that could help gas prices, electricity prices, and food prices come down.
Americans are running on empty and the administration needs to hear how regulations and restriction to domestic resources are affecting working families who rely on affordable energy to commute to work, go to school activities and shop for family groceries.
The point is obviously to put pressure on the administration to begin developing sound policies that expand domestic energy production, increase job opportunities, and most importantly, reduce energy costs.
The campaign comes to Virginia on June 14 in Harrisonburg and Roanoke.
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4 Responses to "AFP: Running on Empty"
Didn’t the head of Govt Motors give the administration response already? I just heard on the news that Stanford U professors say that hot weather (in June) is the direct result of global warming. So its time to walk to work and stay out of the way of the Dems limos. All for the cause.
You got to love it when those fringe right, supposedly laissez-faire, types want the government to intervene in the economy to control the price of gasoline.
Henry,
Looking at their talking points, if by “intervene” you mean “get out of the way” then yes they want government to help.
We don’t want the government to control the price of gasoline, price controls hurt more than they help. They create artificial shortages. If you control the price of hotel rooms (say at 69.99/night) as a hurricane approaches, you can bet that everyone evacuating will be booking rooms for their family, their extended family, their cats, their dogs…But if you allow the rates to be adjusted to 89.99 or 109.99/night, people will take just what they need and there will be more rooms available.
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